Career Ambition: How do you tell your boss that you don’t want a promotion?

Question: “Our company has performance plans based on the expectation that we’ll always be moving up the ladder—or at least trying to. I can tell my boss thinks it’s odd that I’m having trouble with this. The fact is, I’ve been an admin for four great years and I just don’t want to be promoted! How do I convince him that I’m genuinely happy where I am without sounding like I’m scared to take on higher responsibility?” – Fran, Marketing Admin

BIG Goals: Opportunities Disguised as Barriers

Do you give up at the first sign of resistance? As soon as you hit a bump on the road to your dreams, do you back off? Do you say to yourself, “This is not meant to happen?” Or “This must be a sign that I need to forget this dream.” [Read more…]

A message from Joan Burge on Why You Need to Set BIG Goals For Yourself

Why set BIG goals for yourself?

Welcome to February! I imagine that sometime in December or early January, you set goals for 2014 or, at best, wrote a new year’s resolution. Speaking of resolutions, Jasmine Freeman shared a great article in our Daily Pillar Huddle on why resolutions don’t work and how to set the right resolution for yourself. If you want to listen to our huddle, visit Why Sticking to Resolutions is So Hard.

Today, I’m challenging you to set BIG goals this year. While we need small, short-term goals, BIG goals will impact our life in an entirely different way. [Read more…]